Hey, > Hmm. Can we keep “image” persistent by default, and make ‘vm’ volatile > by default? That way, ‘--volatile’ would only make sense for ‘image’, > and ‘--persistent’ would only make sense for ‘vm’. (So we’d be adding > just one option: ‘--persistent’.) > > WDYT? I'm not fan of adding antithetic options: --x and --no-x. There's an attached patch introducing --volatile-image and --persistent-vm options, and documenting them. It's maybe not that bad after all. > I would still ensure they have a name like “guix-image-$USER-XXX”, where > XXX is the store file basename. Sure. Thanks, Mathieu